I have 2 pythons in different enclosures. A few weeks ago, my normal BP had a few mites (not a clue of where these are coming from, knowing I keep the enclosures very clean, spot clean and change bedding and clean all items in the tanks every 3-4 weeks). Anyway, I observed once a tiny thing moving on my normal BP and I understood exactly what is what. The next few hours, I was buying a bunch of things to get rid of them and hired a kid in my building to help me out with cleaning the enclosure, which had to be more than thorough. I bought zooMed mite off and sprayed the snake and the enclosure. Then, I slathered with mineral oil the poor thing, who wasn't too happy about it, but cooperated. Then, I gave her a bath with a bit of Betadine in the water. Rinsed, rinsed and rinsed and quarantined her in a plastic terrarium. I left the enclosure empty for a week just to make sure no mites would come back. My girl was now on paper towel with just a dish of water. A few days later, I let her climb in and out that plastic terrarium to browse around her empty enclosure. This is when I started noticing scale all over the glass. Not the entire scale but the shiny transparent top coat. I though that she was probably losing them while getting in and out the plastic terrarium. I checked where it was coming from and they were the belly ones. Finally, I put her enclosure back together with a mix of lose coconut fibers and aspen, 2 water dishes - one big enough for her to get in - her wood log, her hide, some fake plants and her beloved waterfall - which I built myself with a zooMed waterfall kit. So far, so good. She ate and seemed alert. No more losing scales, and the ones she had lost just left behind white grainier scales, which looked more porous without their shiny top coat. Then, she went blue and this is when everything started to go south. She refused eating, but before a shed, it seems normal - although my other BP, the spider BP is a voracious baby and will eat even amidst a shed. Now, here is the problem. Coming back to my normal BP, she went blue last week and she still hasn't shed. In fact, she shed tiny pieces here and there, her head, her eye caps and a bit on the tail. From the neck down the old skin is still there. When they go blue I raise the humidity to 70-80 %. Today, I put her in a container with wet paper towels for a few hours, then gave her a bath in purified water and put her back in the container, this time on dry paper towel. The strange thing is that some of the skin on her belly seems like shriveled and when wet in looks like hanging off but I do not want to pull because it doesn't seem to be a proper shed, so I'm very careful not to hurt her. Also where the shed is gone on her head, it left a few scales again without that shiny top coat and they seem like wrinkled. I'm not understanding what's going on. I bought her last June from Petco (not the best place to buy, I know, but I fell in love with her and had to get her). My spider BP comes from a breeder instead. I have a large Exo-terra tank, Exo-terra heat lamps, a zooMed heating pad on the side of the tank, temperature controller to turn off or on devices and extra temperature and humidity sensors, which make 3 thermometers in 3 different locations. Basking spot is between 91-95 degrees, 77.7 one side, 70 the other side. Humidity is always around 50-60 with highs at 70-80 when shedding. Can anyone tell me what is going on? Why is she not shedding completely? Why is the new skin dull? I feed her every week - week and a half with a f/t adult, and a hopper. She is a juvenile of about one and a half year old and has been growing and putting up weight steadily. I've read a lot about proper husbandry since I had my pythons and I searched the net and came across a gazillion info, some of them sometimes contradictory. I don't think it's scale rot. I handle her for a few minutes every day - unless she ate- and I didn't see any brown, red or orange spots. However, I have read that mineral oil could cause skin problems. Before, I end up at the vet again for nothing - I did that with my spider BP because I thought she was coughing and it turned out to be just nothing. Even did an X-ray and the vet was just as confused as I was of why I was there. She said to make sure temperature and humidity were right, so I got a repti-fogger and added another heating pad. I don't want to show up at the vet with this snake, now, and make them think that I imagine things. Moreover that, here in Los Angeles, vets are super expensive. Sorry for the long post but I think I pretty well covered everything.